“HE WILL GIVE THE DEVIL HIS DUE”

“HE WILL GIVE THE DEVIL HIS DUE”

“HE WILL GIVE THE DEVIL HIS DUE”

“HE WILL GIVE THE DEVIL HIS DUE” says Prince Hal of Falstaff in
Henry the Fourth, Part 1; but even as he says it he calls it
a “proverb.” John Lyly uses a version of the phrase in his
vituperative pamphlet Pappe with a Hatchet (1589).